To ask if you know what gutties are?

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In mid Scotland, they're the local word for plimsoles or basic trainers. Everyone at school had gutties for PE.

What are your strange local words others haven't heard of or need explaining?

Plimsolls/sand shoes

I'm in Edinburgh now and from the Scottish Borders. Never heard that word in my life. I know them as gym shoes

Ah yes I've heard them called this too

Greater Manchester

Butty - sandwich. School lunch box was always a butty box.
Bread roll - barm cake, bap or oven bottom muffin. A bread roll itself was the crispier small roll you'd have in a restaurant with soup. A muffin was never a cake.
Chip barm is a thing. And smacks/scallops - delicious. Battered, deep fried potato. Carbs with your carbs? Yes please.
Meals were breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. Supper being a couple of biscuits and a hot drink before before bed.
Backie - lift on back of bicycle
Wagging - skipping school/lessons
Gansy - jumper
Chuntering (also more widely used) muttering under your breath.
Cough it up, it might be a piano (pianer) - said to someone with a bad cough

North Staffs contingent

Lozarking - leaning on a surface, lounging around (esp. when you were supposed to be doing something else)
Wherriting - whinging
Gnyarling - Crying
Skenning - narrowing eyes at someone
Furkling (also used in other regions) Trying to find something, grasping for an unseen object. Like a cat with its paw under a rug.

Oh and plimsolls were pumps.

Fizzy drinks were pop or mineral. There was a man who would deliver them on a lorry and collect the bottles. The pop man.

I asked for a fish butty when I was in Scotland once and the woman had no idea what I meant. Not sure if it was just her or the whole of Scotland but I was surprised.

I asked for a fish butty when I was in Scotland once and the woman had no idea what I meant. Not sure if it was just her or the whole of Scotland but I was surprised.

I imagine it was the fish part that confused. Everyone in Scotland knows what a chip butty is but it's the only scenario I've ever heard bitty used. Do you mean a tuna roll or actual battered cod?!

Winching means snogging, not dating

Ah but he was talking about over 60 years ago
My gran used to ask "Are ye winching yet" definately dating/courting

Must be a different part of Glasgow than where my family are from then, winching has always meant snogging here.

My generation (I’m in my 30s) wouldn’t use winching - we’d say “git” or “nip” for kiss, and “goin wae” or “seeing” to mean dating. Winching is definitely for the oldies.
Younger generation just say kissing or “going steady”

I'm in Kent and never have much to contribute to these sorts of discussions, which makes me feel a bit boring. We call them plimsolls.
The only thing I can think of is calling woodlice peabugs or cheesy bugs.

Woodlice are slaters here

That’s a proper blast from the past 🥹

And a kiss was called a lumber